A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
From Grist
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
From Grist
A quiet revolution is taking place to incorporate the costs of biodiversity loss into economic planning. It needs researchers to be engaged.
Decreasing biodiversity, particularly in tropical rainforests, has a direct impact on the prevalence of viruses, according to a study led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
Published in the journal eLife, the research demonstrates that rainforest destruction leads to reduced diversity in mosquito species. This paves the way for more resilient mosquito species – and the viruses they carry – to become dominant.
From Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/biodiversity-loss-could-promote-the-spread-of-viruses/
Majority of offset projects that have sold the most carbon credits are ‘likely junk’, according to analysis by Corporate Accountability and the Guardian.
From The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/19/do-carbon-credit-reduce-emissions-greenhouse-gases
An expansive study by Yale researchers shines light on the incongruities in environmental grantmaking at a micro and macro level, detailing how a grantee organization’s geography, proximity to cities, budget, and top executive’s sex and race are significant factors for how much grant money goes to environmental nonprofits.
From Non Profit Quarterly
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/where-does-the-money-go-in-environmental-grantmaking/
To take part in transformative social change, philanthropists must think toward a future in which their own centrality is diminished.
From: Stanford Social Innovation Review
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/thinking_about_the_long_term_with_philanthropic_power_building
Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land use related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forest and natural land, according to new research.
From Environmental News Network
Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness
From The Guardian
Over the next 10 years, major progress against climate change is entirely possible, and philanthropy has an important role to play. Through interviews with experts and building on previous work with actors in the field, this article identifies three climate philanthropy practices that will be especially important in the decade ahead.
From the Bridgespan Group
https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/winning-on-climate-change-how-philanthropy-can-spur-progress
The right trees, planted in the right locations, could store 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide.
From Scientific American via Pocket: